I think it’s because God is often seen as the infinite, or uncreated, or all that can be known. The something that exists apart from any material existence. Ma

I think it’s because God is often seen as the infinite, or uncreated, or all that can be known. The something that exists apart from any material existence. Mathematical relationships and patterns have this quality. Really what I wonder is why can’t we all just believe in god again? Even if it was just to recognize the fact that there are things that exist in an immaterial way. That there are things that are good and true and beautiful whose goodness truth and beauty is not quantifiable or reduced to some set of atoms. We might disagree on what things are better physical manifestations of the immaterial things, but we don’t need to disagree on their existence. Though I think it is because so many people have said “god is like this” and then posit some religious thing that affirms their often heinous actions, that people have chosen to say yeah I don’t believe in that. But it seems sad that we can’t just talk about god in the sense of there are things bigger than ourself, even if we don’t know them because they are unknowable. Even if we just acknowledged “God” as the first cause or the existence of things not material (like 2+2=4 is true even if there was no material thing to represent it), I feel like we could go a long way to finding that us humans, usually have more in common than we have not in common. That the things that divide us are actually smaller than the thing that unites us. (I don’t see why your question was downvoted by the way)